Conferencing Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Rabbit aims to lift the limits on video chat, Mac beta coming next year

by Michael Rose (Dec 20th, 2012)

Considering how long it took for the videophone to truly reach the mass market -- the first public video telephony service was launched in Germany more than 75 years ago -- it's pretty remarkable how many video chat options we have today. From FaceTime to Microsoft's Skype to Cisco's WebEx, ...

Fuze Meeting delivers multiparty video conferencing to iPad 2

by Michael Rose (Mar 31st, 2011)

The latest updates to Callwave's distributed conferencing platform, Fuze Meeting, have added a rather dramatic new feature that's perfect for iPad 2 owners (not to mention Android 'Honeycomb' tablets like the Motorola Xoom and older 'Froyo' devices): multi-party video conferencing. Meeting ...

join.me introduces mobile viewer for iPad

by Erica Sadun (Feb 2nd, 2011)

Today, join.me introduced their free iOS viewer, allowing users to participate in online meetings and screen sharing from their iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. A bunch of us TUAWians spent time yesterday afternoon exploring join.me in its browser-based form. join.me is a new ...

Apple wins two new patents including tablet proximity detector

by Mike Schramm (Jan 26th, 2010)

Expectations and excitement are at a fever pitch for the hoped-for tablet announcement, but that hasn't stopped Apple's lawyers from earning their keep. Just in the past few days, they've nailed down two more patents, one of which has to do with tablet-style technology. That's a "proximity ...